The ordinary-sized words are for everyone, but the big ones are especially for children.

Friday, 20 June 2014

Word To Use Today: pompom.

Here's one small word: pompom.What does it mean to you?Joy?Or killing?It's joy for me: tumbling clowns with pompom buttons; a pompom bounding along on top of a child's hat......mathematical dahlias (someone's pride and joy)......carnival!But some of us hear killing. Pompom (or pom-pom): a cannon, especially an anti-aircraft cannon.Well, I've made my choice.What's yours?Word To Use Today: pompom. The cannon word is an imitation of its noise. The fluffy-ball word comes from the Old French pompe, a knot of ribbons.